Bank-check



C. CHURCHILL.

BANK CHECK.

APPLICATION FILED AIIGJ, I9I9.

1,343,762. Patented June 15, 1920.

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Pay D.' lire Order-af y r y l arto: nu n4 PATENT CLIFFORD CI-IUCI-IILIJ, 0F KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

BANK-CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1920.

Application filed August 7, 1919. Serial No. 315,957.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, CLIFFORD CHURCHILL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have made certain new and useful Improvements Vin Bank-Checks,`

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to documents such as bank checks, drafts and other negotiable instruments having a monetary value, and has for one of its objects to provide documents of this class in duplicate and superposed with one document rougheiied or milled where the identifying matter is to be disposed and a transferring element between the roughened portions and the body of the other document, so that identifying matter impressed upon one of the documents will be likewise impressed upon the milled portion of the other document.

Another object of the invention is to pro- Vide duplicate sheets separately rolled and divided into sections by severing scores, each section of one sheet being milled or roughened where the identifying matter is to be disposed and a transferring element between the roughened portions of the sections and the body portions of the other sections.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a view of the matter receiving face of the original or record receiving check.

Fig. 2 is a view of the matter receiving face of the duplicate check.

Fig. 3 isa view of the rear face of the sheet shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. l is a perspective View of the improved device arranged in duplicate and in multiple. Y

The invention consists primarily in providing bank checks, drafts, deeds, and other negotiable documents in duplicate and milling or roughening one of the documents where the identifying data or evidence of value is to be applied and interposing a transferring medium between the milled portion of one document and the data receiving portion of the other4 document, whereby when the data is applied to the unmilled document it will also be imprinted on the milled portion of the other document,

thus effectually preventing the changing or altering of the identifying or value imparting data.

The roughening or milling of the body of the document does not preclude the imprinting of the identifying or value imparting matter thereon or rendering it indistinct or non-decipherable, while at the same time the uneven surface on which the imprinted matter is disposed effectually prevents any attempt to change, alter or otherwise tamper with the same', without detection.

A document thus formed and protected cannot be changed or. altered without destroying the roughened or corrugated portions.

The improvement may be applied to various forms of documents containing matter whereby4 money value is imparted thereto, such as bank checks, drafts, and the like.

For the purpose of illustration the improved non-changeable document is shown embodied in duplicate bank checks of conventional form. The original check is represented as a whole at 10 and the duplicate or record check at 11 each having the usual title of the bank 12, date space at 13, space 14 for the insertion of the name of the payee, space 15 for the insertion of the amount of the check in numerals, a space 16 for imprinting the amount of the check, a space 17 for imprinting the name of the payer, and a space 18 for the signa-ture of the payer.

The portions 14:-15- and 16 of the duplicate check are roughened or milled prior to the imprinting thereon of the identifying or value imparting matter. Thev roughened or milled surface will readily receive imprinted characters, for instance, by a typewriter, which will be clear and distinct, but which cannot be erased or altered without detection, as any attempt to tamper with the roughened surface will destroy the teX- ture of the paper and expose the attempt to change it.

The portions of the rear face of the original document beneath the spaces 13-14l1516 and 17 thereof is supplied with a transfer- 'ring element 16, for instance the carbon transfer compound used on typewriter carbon sheets, this carbonized portion being thus in contact with the milled or roughened lportion of the duplicate document, when the separate carbon sheets may be employed, if

preferred.

Bythis means duplicates or copies of thev documents may be made to be preserved as a record. V Y A.

The improved checks or other documents may likewise be arranged in sections separated by tearing punctures or `scores and separately rolled as indicated in lFig. 3,- theVV .s superposed sections being withdrawn from the rolls as required for insertion in a typewriter, or other like device.

The improved device is simple in .con-

struction, eeient in operation, and provides ample protection to documents of various kinds, as hereinbefore stated.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is l. An article of the class described comprising an original and a duplicate document supei'posed, the duplicate document being milled or roughened where the evidenceof value is to be impressed and a transferring elementbetween the original document and the milled portions of the duplicate docu ment, whereby matter imprinted on the original document will be transferred to the milled portion of the duplicate document.

2. A device of the class described com*- prising original and duplicate sheets of man terial separately rolled and divided into sections by tearing scores, each section of the duplicate sheet being milled or rou'gliened where evidenceof value is to be imprinted, and a transferring element i between each section of the original sheet and the milled portions of the duplicate sheet.`

In testimony whereof I aliiX my signature hereto. Y l c CLIFFORDV CHURCHILL. 

